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SUMMARY:2017 MESA: Judicial activism in the field of Egyptian shari‘a-derived family law
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Monika Lindbekk  \nThis paper analyzes aspects of judicial activism in the field of Egyptian personal status law for Muslims. In a country where reform of the current personal status codes is politically fraught\, family court judges perform an important semi-legislative task in interpreting and applying the law. Taking this as a point of departure\, the paper argues that courts are an important site for exercising Islamic authority and positioning citizens as religious subjects. Among other things\, family courts in Egypt contribute to an ongoing discourse on what constitutes the ideal family. In doing so\, family court judges help consolidate increasingly hegemonic notions of the nuclear family and conjugal marriage clothed in the Quranic language of mercy and amity (rahma wa mawadda). Thus\, contemporary family courts continuously re-inscribe shari‘a in state law and construct its meaning in a way which differs from classical Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh). This tendency has been reinforced by the introduction of computer technology with the stated aim of rationalizing legal practice by making it more uniform. The aforementioned developments in the family courts of Egypt resemble those that have occurred over the past few years in family courts of Tunisia and sharia courts of Malaysia where the same ‘rationalized Islam’ (in the sense of unified and standard) has been found to be at work. The introduction of computerization\, which involves the same paragraphs being reproduced over and over through the medium of templates\, provides a powerful impetus for the streamlining of judicial practice. However\, in the years following the 2011 uprising\, individual judges also used the courts as a platform to articulate alternative discourses. In the post-revolutionary environment\, they clearly crossed the border between adjudication and legislation by participating in public debate and becoming members of a legislative committee tasked with comprehensive family law reform.This paper analyzes the implications of judicial activism against a background where old and new actors and institutions competed over the right to interpret shari‘a in an authoritative way.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/2017-mesa-judicial-activism-in-the-field-of-egyptian-sharia-derived-family-law/
LOCATION:Marriott Wardman Park Hotel\, 2660 Woodley Rd NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20008
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171124T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171124T170000
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20171030T153423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T153423Z
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SUMMARY:Governance and Violence in Islamic Law Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This one-day workshop is held under the auspices of the USPPIP project (Understanding Sharia: Past Perfect\, Imperfect Present) and will be hosted by the University of Exeter.  The workshop will cover the specific focus of two elements of the project – violence (studied by Exeter USPPIP research team) and governance (studied by the Bergen USPPIP research team).  The workshop will be convened by the USPPIP team members Drs Omar Anchassi and Eirik Hovden and Professors Robert Gleave and Knut Vikor.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/governance-and-violence-in-islamic-law-workshop/
LOCATION:University of Exeter\, Exeter\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171127T130000
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20171114T165129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171114T165129Z
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SUMMARY:ILSP Lunch Talk :: Research Methods: Studying Court Narratives through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
DESCRIPTION:Sharon Tai\, SHARIAsource Deputy Editor and Ali Hashmi\, former MIT Media Lab Fellow\, use natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to build a taxonomy of entities for SHARIAsource’s collection of cases of Islamic law in U.S. Courts\, including cases of family law and religious accommodation. From there\, comparison of state courts with overall federal courts using computational text analysis methods allows for insights into whether there is consistency of themes and considerations between lower and upper court decisions. This can allow researchers to identify spots of bias\, sentiment\, and missing considerations that become future questions about the narrative created by U.S. Courts in dealing with Islamic law. Details.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-research-methods-studying-court-narratives-through-machine-learning-and-natural-language-processing/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T130000
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20171030T165747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T165747Z
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SUMMARY:HLS Law Library Faculty Book Talk: Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts
DESCRIPTION:A panel to discuss Professor Intisar Rabb’s soon-to-be released book co-edited with Abigail Krasner Balbale\, Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts\, composed in honor of Roy Parviz Mottahedeh. \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/hls-law-library-faculty-book-talk-justice-and-leadership-in-early-islamic-courts/
LOCATION:Lewis 214A\, Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20171114T180045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171114T180045Z
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SUMMARY:Twelver Imami Shiite Views on the Variant Readings of the Quran: Legal and Theological Implications
DESCRIPTION:Shady Nasser\nAssistant Professor\, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nProfessor Nasser teaches Arabic literature as well as Islamic Civilizations courses. He previous posting was as a University Lecturer in Classical Arabic studies at the University of Cambridge (UK)\, in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Shady started his PhD at Harvard University in Arabic and Islamic studies under the supervision of Wolfhart Heinrichs. He completed his PhD in 2011. From 2009-2012 he was a senior lector of Arabic and the coordinator of the Arabic language program at Yale University. In 2013\, he was appointed University Lecturer in Classical Arabic studies at the University of Cambridge (UK). Nasser’s research interest is Qur’anic studies in general with particular focus on the history of the transmission of the text\, its language\, and its reception among the early Muslim community. Pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry\, Akhbār Literature\, and Ḥadith transmission\, are also among Nasser’s research interests. \nCo-sponsors: The Committee on Study of Religion\, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Islamic Legal Studies Program (Law & Social Change)\, Julius-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish & Israeli Law
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/twelver-imami-shiite-views-on-the-variant-readings-of-the-quran-legal-and-theological-implications/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel 262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T130000
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20170921T205743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T205743Z
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SUMMARY:ILSP LUNCH TALK
DESCRIPTION:Rodrigo Adem\, ILSP: SHARIAsource Visiting Fellow\, Harvard Law School; College Fellow\, Harvard University Department of History
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:SHARIAsource events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171216
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20171113T212412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171113T212412Z
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SUMMARY:UC Berkeley Near Eastern Studies Graduate Conference April 2018
DESCRIPTION:The Near Eastern Studies graduate students at UC Berkeley would like to invite the graduate students of your department to participate in the 2018 UC Berkeley Near Eastern Studies Graduate Student Conference. Please find our full Call for Papers on our website (jagnesjournal.wordpress.com)\, we would greatly appreciate if you could distribute this to your department’s students and any other relevant audiences. \nThe title of this year’s symposium is\, Hard Times: Critical Approaches to Crisis and its Aftermath. From our perspective as students and scholars of the Near East\, hard times have become an uncritical staple of contemporary discourse regarding the Middle East. In the news\, in the streets and even in our classrooms\, the Middle East is often framed as an outworldly difficult place\, defined by its hardships and catastrophes. In our conference\, we wish not to deny this notion (at least\, not offhandedly)\, but to complicate it by considering it from a diverse array of critical perspectives. \nTo that end\, the Near Eastern Studies Department and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley\, invite papers situated within\, working against and expanding on the question of hard times in related fields of the Near East. Individual paper topics may include (but are not limited to) the following: Opposition and counter-narratives\, The future(s) of Near Eastern Studies\, Borders and border politics\, Resistance in the Ancient World\, Crisis and Archaeological Cultural Heritage\, Persistence of instability as a trope in Near Eastern and Middle Eastern Studies\, Precarity and its poetics\, Beyond the geopolitical narrative of crisis (environmental\, social\, existential crises)\, and Representation of crisis in aesthetics (literature\, plastic art\, etc.). \nThe conference will take place on April 27-28th\, 2018 at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) on the UC Berkeley campus\, consisting of two days of thematically-organized panel sessions. Faculty will serve as the respondents for each of the panels. On Friday evening\, Professor Miriam Cooke will give the keynote lecture addressing the conference theme. \nApplicants should submit an abstract of no more than 250 words by December 15th\, 2017. Please fill out the abstract submission form on our website. Paper presentations should be approximately 20 minutes in length\, which will be followed by a short\, discussant-led question and answer session. \nPlease do not hesitate to contact us with any additional questions. For more information about registration\, travel & accommodation\, please visit our website. Questions about the conference should be directed to jagnes@berkeley.edu.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/uc-berkeley-near-eastern-studies-graduate-conference-april-2018/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley
CATEGORIES:Applications,conferences and workshops,Opportunities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171219
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20171113T120539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171113T120539Z
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SUMMARY:Law and Society Association 2018 Junior Scholar Workshop
DESCRIPTION:JUNIOR SCHOLARS WORKSHOP \nThe Law and Society Association is pleased to announce our Junior Scholar Workshop will begin mid-day on Tuesday\, June 5\, and continue through the day on Wednesday\, June 6\, 2018. The workshop immediately precedes the 2018 joint Annual Meetings of the Law and Society Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association in Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada. \n  \nWe invite applications from junior scholars in any field whose scholarly interests involve socio-legal studies. Specifically\, we welcome applications from graduate students (including advanced law students)\, post-doctoral fellows\, and assistant professors (or other pre-tenure faculty). \n  \nPlease complete the submission form by December 18 to be a part of the 2018 Junior Scholar Workshop. The LSA workshops have a competitive application process\, and those applicants selected as members of the cohort will be informed prior to February 1\, 2018. \n  \nAPPLY HERE \n  \nPlease contact Ashley Rubin\, chair of the Junior Scholar Workshop Committee\, with questions at ashley.rubin@utoronto.ca.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/law-and-society-association-announcements-2018-junior-scholar-workshop-and-trustee-elections/
CATEGORIES:Applications,conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180114
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20171114T182304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171114T182304Z
UID:10000960-1514764800-1515887999@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:USPPIP Summer School for Early Career Researchers: "Uses of the Past in Islamic Law”
DESCRIPTION:Advanced notice: the First “Uses of the Past in Islamic Law” Summer School for Early Career Researchers\, July 2018.  In early January\, USPPIP will open for applications from advanced PhD students and recently graduated PhD students/Post-doctoral researchers.  The travel and accommodation expenses of all participants will be covered by USPPIP. Details in the next USPPIP bulletin.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/usppip-summer-school-for-early-career-researchers-uses-of-the-past-in-islamic-law/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180112
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20171030T154034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T154034Z
UID:10000916-1515456000-1515715199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Islamic Law and Sexuality Conference 9th – 11th January 2018\, University of Exeter
DESCRIPTION:This two day workshop aims to investigate questions of Islamic law and sexuality\, broadly conceived\, including but not limited to such subjects as il/legitimate sex\, communal perceptions of sexuality\, marriage\, sexual violence\, gender\, concubinage and sexual consent.  We are interested in shifting patterns of argumentation and in the formation of legal categories; how did pre-modern jurists conceptualise the legitimate expression of sexuality\, for example?  How have these boundaries shifted in the modern period?  How have modern jurists and others drawn on the legacy of the past in thinking through these questions?  And what are some of the fundamental dynamics underlying these processes of change?  Our papers address the construction of these categories and their reformulation in the modern period.  For the purposes of this workshop we are concerned with the fiqhī heritage itself as well as its representation and deployment in modern legal argument.  What did pre-modern jurists think about these subjects and how has thinking changed or otherwise; if so\, what explains these dis/continuities? \nKeynote lecture to be delivered by Kecia Ali.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/islamic-law-and-sexuality-conference-9th-11th-january-2018-university-of-exeter/
LOCATION:University of Exeter\, Exeter\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180116
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20180122T184702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T184702Z
UID:10000805-1515974400-1516060799@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The RCSL-SDJ Lisbon Meeting 2018: "Law and Citizenship Beyond The States”
DESCRIPTION:The conference will discuss\, among other topics of sociology of law and justice\, the contribution of law to the power of citizens\, at a time of increasing competition between state law\, once the main source of people’s rights\, and multiple global and local normativities. Proposals due January 15. \n​The meeting is co-sponsored by the Sociology of Law and Justice Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association. It is organized by DINÂMIA’CET-IUL\, a research unit of ISCTE-IUL \, which gives the Local Organizing Committee its institutional framework and administrative support\, in partnership with the following partner research units: CES (Coimbra)\, CICS.NOVA (Braga\, Lisbon)\, CIES (ISCTE-IUL\, Lisbon)\, and CRIA (Lisbon\, Braga)\, as well as with the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati). On top of these academic partnerships\, we pretend also to involve personalities and entities from outside the world of science\, for this meeting to be itself\, as far as possible\, an experience of citizenry beyond the states. \n​It is the second initiative of RCSL during the year 2018\, since the RCSL will also participate in the ISA World Congress in Toronto\, 15-21 July 2018. Other recent RCSL meetings took place in Vienna\, July 2016\, within the framework of the 3rd ISA-Forum\, and México City\, June 2017\, where RCSL was a sponsor of the International Meeting on Law and Society. \n​It is the third meeting of the recently created Sociology of Law and Justice Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association\, which held their first meeting in January 2016 in Coimbra\, and a second meeting in February 2017\, in Braga. \n​The meeting will be bilingual English / Portuguese. Plenary sessions will be held in English. Sessions in other languages may be be authorized by the Organizing Committee.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-rcsl-sdj-lisbon-meeting-2018-law-and-citizenship-beyond-the-states-2/
CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180201
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20180122T191701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T191701Z
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SUMMARY:CFP: Religious Marriages in the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:This multidisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers who have engaged in research on religious marriages in the Mediterranean. Papers may focus on\, but are not limited to\, one or\nmore of the following themes: \n1. Exploring the legal and social interaction between religious and civil marriages in the Mediterranean\, whether contemporary or historical perspective (colonial and postcolonial). \n2. Investigating the non-apparent connections between different religions within and without marriage legislation (Sunni\, Shia\, Catholic\, Orthodox\, Coptic\, Jewish\, Hindu…)\, including papers on\nmixed marriages. \n3. How human/civil rights discourses blend and/or conflict with other forms of theological\, moral and/or customary discourses on religious marriages. \n4. Diverse ways of concluding and/or celebrating religious marriages in the Mediterranean. \n5. Problematization and politicization of religious marriages in the Mediterranean. \nOrganizers:\nIbtisam Sadegh (University of Amsterdam) \nDavid Zammit (University of Malta) \nSusan Hirsch (George Mason University) \nPapers (7\,000-8\,000 words)\, will be considered for publication in a special issue of the international\, peer-reviewed Journal of Mediterranean Studies (ISSN: 1016-3476)\, published by the Mediterranean Institute\, University of Malta and available electronically through Project Muse. \nUpon request\, limited travel and accommodation funds (two nights) may be available for short-listed candidates who cannot apply for funding from their own universities. Please submit your request for funding with your paper proposal. \nDeadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2018\nAbstracts of 200-300 words are to be submitted via e-mail: i.sadegh@uva.nl with ‘abstract’ and your last name in the subject heading. \nMore information: Religious Marriage Conference Blurb
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-religious-marriages-in-the-mediterranean/
CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180201
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20171030T154312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T154312Z
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SUMMARY:American Institute for Maghrib Studies: Annual Grants Program
DESCRIPTION:The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is pleased to announce its Annual Grants Program for the 2018-2019 cycle: \nSubmissions for the AIMS Grants Program for US Citizens are due January 31st\, 2018.  The program offers short and long term grants to U.S. scholars interested in conducting research on North Africa in any Maghrib country\, specifically Algeria\, Mauritania\, Morocco\, or Tunisia. For more information\, please visit: http://aimsnorthafrica.org/long-and-short-term-grants/.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/american-institute-for-maghrib-studies-annual-grants-program/
CATEGORIES:Due dates,Grants,Opportunities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180202
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20180122T181051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T181051Z
UID:10000803-1517443200-1517529599@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Digital Editions\, Digital Corpora and New Possibilities for the Humanities in the Academy and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:The Perseus Digital Library Project at Tufts University is proud to host a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities \nDigital Editions\, Digital Corpora and New Possibilities for the Humanities in the Academy and Beyond (July 16 – 27\, 2018) will allow participants to spend two weeks exploring a range of advanced new methods for annotating textual sources and to learn how to use these technologies to create state-of-the-art digital editions and multi-layer corpora.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/digital-editions-digital-corpora-and-new-possibilities-for-the-humanities-in-the-academy-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Tufts University
CATEGORIES:Applications,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T130000
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20180216T210215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180216T210215Z
UID:10000809-1519213500-1519218000@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Common Roots\, Diverging Branches: Dynamism in Islamic and Jewish Law
DESCRIPTION:The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at the Harvard Law School presents a lunchtime lecture with Professor Gideon Libson (Professor Emeritus\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem): \nGideon Libson is Professor Emeritus of Jewish and Islamic Law and Comparative Jewish and Islamic Law in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has written extensively on Jewish Law\, Islamic Law and Comparative Jewish-Islamic Law. His book on Jewish and Islamic Law: A Comparative Study of Custom During the Geonic Period was published by Harvard University Press in 2003. \nProf. Gideon Libson’s lecture will explore the core common principles in several fields of law in the Islamic and Jewish legal traditions\, with clear similarities between them. It was only over the years that the two systems diverged\, primarily as a result of Jewish law’s dynamic ability to adapt to the challenges and constraints of changing circumstances by supplementing the initial core with additional normative layers. As a result of the significant disparity that emerged between them\, their initial common basis has become completely invisible. The similarity between the two systems has all but vanished\, while the differences have increased. \nFor more information\, please contact Menachem Butler (mbutler@law.harvard.edu)
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/common-roots-diverging-branches-dynamism-in-islamic-and-jewish-law/
LOCATION:Pound Hall 100\, Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T203000
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20180227T131900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T131900Z
UID:10000811-1519239600-1519245000@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Redefining and Retaining Shariʿah Compliance in Islamic Finance
DESCRIPTION:Public Lecture on Islamic Finance
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/redefining-and-retaining-shari%ca%bfah-compliance-in-islamic-finance/
LOCATION:SOAS University of London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
GEO:51.5072648;-0.1278328
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T180000
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20180227T155027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T155027Z
UID:10000966-1519747200-1519754400@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:History of the Book :: Arabic Book Culture from Manuscript to Print by Ahmed El Shamsy\, University of Chicago
DESCRIPTION:  \nArabic Book Culture from Manuscript to Print\nRespondent\nElias Muhanna\nBrown University
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/history-of-the-book-arabic-book-culture-from-manuscript-to-print-by-ahmed-el-shamsy-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Barker Center\, Room 133
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180227
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180301
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20180122T193036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T193036Z
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SUMMARY:CFP: Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES)
DESCRIPTION:WOCMES Seville 2018 will be held in the capital of Andalusia on 16-22 July 2018\, serving as a meeting point to present\, debate and share a wide range of information on the latest studies concerning the Middle East\, encompassing diverse perspectives\, from conflict analysis and resolution to migrations\, water\, the environment\, culture\, news media and studies on Al-Andalus. \nThe World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) is the biggest encounter of world experts on disciplines related to this vast region whether contemporary or ancient. The Congress takes place every four years in a different capital. The fifth edition will be organised by the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation in collaboration with the University of Seville whose headquarters will serve as the main venue for the event. \nIn the wake of the four previous congresses – Mainz 2002 (Germany)\, Amman 2006 (Jordan)\, Barcelona 2010 (Spain) and Ankara 2014 (Turkey)\, WOCMES Seville 2018 will focus on the relationship between the three cultures and\, given that it is the Foundation’s raison d’être\, the Andalusí legacy and the roots of the city that will host this major international gathering. \nThe Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation calls for submissions for the fifth edition of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) which will be held in Seville\, Spain\, from July 16th to the 22nd\, 2018. \nAll submissions of proposals must be made through the Wocmes Seville 2018 website at http://wocmes2018seville.org/ \nThe system will close at midnight (CET) on February 28th\, 2018. \nThemes: Al-Andalus; Ancient Middle East; Christian Studies; Conflict Analysis and Resolution; Contemporary Middle East; Cultural Studies; Economics; Gender Studies; International Relations and International Law; Islamic Studies; Jewish Studies; Linguistic and Literature; Media Studies; Medieval Studies; Mediterranean Studies; Migration Studies; Nationality / Identities and Ethnicity; Normative Phenomena and Law; North Africa; Politics; Sepharad and Sephardic Diaspora; Scientific Culture; Translation studies; Urban and Regional Studies; Water\, Agriculture and the Environment. \nMajor disciplines: Anthropology; Arabic and Islamic Studies; Archaeology; Architecture; Art; Communication / Information; Demography; Economics; Economic and Social Development; Education; Egyptology; Environmental Studies; Ethnology; Gender Studies; Geography; Hebrew and Jewish Studies; History; International Relations; Languages and Literature; Law; Library Studies; Linguistics; Museum Sciences; Musicology; Philology; Philosophy; Political Sciences; Sociology; Theology; Urban Planning.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-fifth-world-congress-for-middle-eastern-studies-wocmes/
LOCATION:Seville\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180301
DTSTAMP:20260704T122849
CREATED:20180122T175515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T175515Z
UID:10000961-1519776000-1519862399@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Uses of the Past in Islamic Legal Thought and Practice: Summer School 8th -14th July 2018\, University of Exeter\, UK
DESCRIPTION:Call for Applications \nThe Understanding Shari`a Project is organising an all-expenses paid summer school for the 7-14th July on the project theme of ‘uses of the past’ in Islamic Law\, to be hosted by the University of Exeter.  The deadline for applications is February 28th.  Anyone in the final 18 months of their PhD\, or within 18 months of the completion of their degree\, is most welcome to apply.  Participant expenses will be covered from the project budget (including food\, board and flights as necessary). For more information please click here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/uses-of-the-past-in-islamic-legal-thought-and-practice-summer-school-8th-14th-july-2018-university-of-exeter-uk/
LOCATION:University of Exeter
CATEGORIES:Applications,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180302
DTSTAMP:20260704T122850
CREATED:20180227T133043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T133043Z
UID:10000812-1519862400-1519948799@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CFP:: 3rd Annual Legal Studies Graduate Conference: Law\, Language and the Archive
DESCRIPTION:Brown Legal Studies 2018 CFP \nLanguage is a conduit of information\, a reflection of the social and political constructions of bygone eras\, as well as our present. It can be deployed in the service of beauty\, expression\, liberation\, punishment\, control\, and /or shame. Moreover\, language\, an essential tool of the law\, is ordered and organized according to an often contradictory sedimentation of norms\, assumptions\, and customs. As legal scholars\, we employ a number of methodologies to confront and interpret the messy entanglements of language\, law\, and lived experience. The legal archive\, like law and language\, “straddles the material and the ideational\,” sometimes tracking these myriad modes of legal speech\, sometimes itself symbolically producing ‘the law’ as a heavily guarded and precise linguistic apparatus\, filled with loopholes and traps. \nThe Brown Legal Studies initiative invites paper submissions on the subject of “Law\, Language\, and the Archive” for its third annual graduate student conference. At a moment when important political and legal institutions in the United States are challenged from within and without\, our conference will consider the interaction of language and the law\, contemporarily and in broader historical and comparatist contexts\, and the ways we\, as scholars\, interact and interpret the language of the law in the archival sources we use.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-3rd-annual-legal-studies-graduate-conference-law-language-and-the-archive/
LOCATION:Brown University\, Providence\, RI
CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Opportunities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180301T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180302T170000
DTSTAMP:20260704T122850
CREATED:20180227T155238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T155238Z
UID:10000967-1519891200-1520010000@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Conference: Islam and Toleration
DESCRIPTION:The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University is pleased to announce our annual conference on Islam and Toleration. This conference aims to explore the concept and realities of toleration in the Islamic tradition with a focus on contemporary work\, from Asia and Africa to Europe and the United States. This conference is co-sponsored by Harvard Law School’s Islamic Legal Studies Program: SHARIAsource. \nIslam and toleration Poster \nKeynote Address \nThursday\, March 1st 5:30pm\, Tsai Auditorium \n  \n“Reflections on Tolerance and its Difficulty” \n  \nThomas M. Scanlon\, Alford Professor of Natural Religion\, Moral Philosophy\, and Civil Polity\, Emeritus\, Harvard University \n  \n  \nPanel Discussions \nFriday\, March 2nd from 10:00am to 5:00pm\, Belfer Case Study Room \n  \n10:00 am – Panel 1 – Muslim minorities in Non-Muslim societies \nPanelists: Khalil Abdur-Rashid\, Sugata Bose\, Jocelyn Cesari\, Yee Htun \nChair: William A. Graham \n  \n1:00 pm – Panel 2 – Minorities in Muslim-majority societies \nPanelists: Orit Bashkin\, Kristin Fabbe\, Ousmane Kane\, Jeremy Menchik \nChair: Shady Nasser \n  \n3:00 pm – Panel 3 – Intra-Islamic Toleration \nPanelists: Akeel Bilgrami\, Nebil Husayn\, Mohsen Kadivar\, Roy P. Mottahedeh \nChair: Tarek Masoud \n  \n  \nAll sessions will take place at CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA 02138.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/conference-islam-and-toleration/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180306T180000
DTSTAMP:20260704T122850
CREATED:20180227T134000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T134000Z
UID:10000964-1520352000-1520359200@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series :: The Place of Ethics in Islamic Law by Ahmed El Shamsy\, University of Chicago
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series \npresents \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Place of Ethics in Islamic Law \n\n\n\n\n\nAhmed El Shamsy\nAssociate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern\nLanguages and Civilizations\, University of Chicago \nProfessor El-Shamsy is Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He studies the intellectual history of Islam\, focusing on the evolution of the classical Islamic disciplines and scholarly culture within their broader historical context. His research addresses themes such as orality and literacy\, the history of the book\, and the theory and practice of Islamic law. His first book\, The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History\, traces the transformation of Islamic law from a primarily oral tradition to a systematic written discipline in the eighth and ninth centuries. He is now at work on his second book\, a study of the reinvention of the Islamic scholarly tradition and its textual canon via the printing press in the early twentieth century. \n\nMarch 6\, 2018 || 4:00 to 6:00 pm \nCMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland Street\nCambridge\, MA 02138 \nContact: Liz Flanagan\nLink: http://bit.ly/2CxWuUQ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  cmes.fas.harvard.edu || twitter || instagram || facebook
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-harvard-law-and-religion-lecture-series-the-place-of-ethics-in-islamic-law-by-ahmed-el-shamsy-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:CMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180308T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180308T173000
DTSTAMP:20260704T122850
CREATED:20180227T134354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T134354Z
UID:10000965-1520515800-1520530200@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Early Shiʿi Law in Context
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/early-shi%ca%bfi-law-in-context/
LOCATION:Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton\, NJ
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180320
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180322
DTSTAMP:20260704T122850
CREATED:20180130T194533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180130T194533Z
UID:10000808-1521504000-1521676799@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Religious Marriages in the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:Venue and date: Mediterranean Institute\, University of Malta \nThis multidisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers who have engaged in research on religious marriages in the Mediterranean. Papers may focus on\, but are not limited to\, one or\nmore of the following themes: \n1. Exploring the legal and social interaction between religious and civil marriages in the Mediterranean\, whether contemporary or historical perspective (colonial and postcolonial). \n2. Investigating the non-apparent connections between different religions within and without marriage legislation (Sunni\, Shia\, Catholic\, Orthodox\, Coptic\, Jewish\, Hindu…)\, including papers on\nmixed marriages. \n3. How human/civil rights discourses blend and/or conflict with other forms of theological\, moral and/or customary discourses on religious marriages. \n4. Diverse ways of concluding and/or celebrating religious marriages in the Mediterranean. \n5. Problematization and politicization of religious marriages in the Mediterranean. \nOrganizers:\nIbtisam Sadegh (University of Amsterdam) \nDavid Zammit (University of Malta) \nSusan Hirsch (George Mason University) \nPapers (7\,000-8\,000 words)\, will be considered for publication in a special issue of the international\, peer-reviewed Journal of Mediterranean Studies (ISSN: 1016-3476)\, published by the Mediterranean Institute\, University of Malta and available electronically through Project Muse. \nUpon request\, limited travel and accommodation funds (two nights) may be available for short-listed candidates who cannot apply for funding from their own universities. Please submit your request for funding with your paper proposal. \nOrganizers: \nIbtisam Sadegh (University of Amsterdam) \nDavid Zammit (University of Malta) \nSusan F. Hirsch (George Mason University) \nPapers (7\,000-8\,000 words)\, will be considered for publication in a special issue of the international\, peer-reviewed Journal of Mediterranean Studies (ISSN: 1016-3476)\, published \nby the Mediterranean Institute\, University of Malta and available electronically through Project Muse. \nUpon request\, limited travel and accommodation funds (two nights) may be available for short-listed candidates who cannot apply for funding from their own universities. Please submit your request for funding with your paper proposal. \nKey note speaker: \nAnnelies Moors\, Professor of Anthropology\, University of Amsterdam \nDeadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2018 \nAbstracts of 200-300 words are to be submitted via e-mail: i.sadegh@uva.nl with ‘abstract’ \nand your last name in the subject heading. \nTimeline: \n31 January 2018: Deadline for abstract submission \n10 February 2018: Notification of acceptance \n1 March 2018: Deadline for complete draft of paper between 5000 – 8000 words \nor a PowerPoint presentation. \n20-21 March 2018: Conference hosted by the Mediterranean Institute \n1 April 2018: Select participants will be invited to submit papers for consideration for publication in 2018 in the Journal of Mediterranean Studies \nThis two-day conference is organized by the University of Malta through the Department of Civil Law and the Mediterranean Institute research group on Belief\, Identity and Exchange in conjunction with the ERC-funded research project on ‘Problematizing “Muslim Marriages”: Ambiguities and Contestations’ hosted by the University of Amsterdam. See http://religionresearch.org/musmar2014/
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/religious-marriages-in-the-mediterranean/
LOCATION:Mediterranean Institute\, University of Malta
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180320T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180320T130000
DTSTAMP:20260704T122850
CREATED:20180301T205415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180301T205415Z
UID:10000974-1521547200-1521550800@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Hair and Identity in Islamic and Jewish Law: Uncovering an Unlikely Link
DESCRIPTION:Ahmed El Shamsy\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School will delve into the seemingly frivolous issue of male grooming practices to shed light on how the early Muslim community positioned itself and its law vis-a-vis the Jews and Jewish law. \nAhmed El Shamsy (PhD Harvard\, 2009) is an associate professor of Islamic thought at the University of Chicago and a senior scholar at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. He studies the intellectual history of Islam\, focusing on the evolution of the classical Islamic disciplines and scholarly culture within their broader historical context. His research addresses themes such as orality and literacy\, the history of the book\, and the theory and practice of Islamic law. His first book\, The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History\, traced the transformation of Islamic law from a primarily oral tradition to a systematic written discipline in the eighth and ninth centuries. He is now completing his second book\, a study of the reinvention of the Islamic scholarly tradition and its textual canon via the printing press in the early twentieth century.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-shariasource-lunch-talk-hair-and-identity-in-islamic-and-jewish-law-uncovering-an-unlikely-link/
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180325
DTSTAMP:20260704T122850
CREATED:20180227T130348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T130348Z
UID:10000810-1521763200-1521935999@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:35th Annual Conference of the American Society for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS): Islam in the Post-Obama Era
DESCRIPTION:This conference is being co-sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy. \nOf Note:\n \n\n\n\n11:15AM – 12:15PM\nSession 2: Shariah and the Public Sphere in the United States \nChair: Peter Skerry\, Boston College \nThe Shariah Scare Industry and the Clash of Temporalities\nSteven Fink\, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire \nOn Stoning Punishments and Human Rights\nSyed Atif Rizwan\, University of California\, Los Angeles
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/35th-annual-conference-of-the-american-society-for-the-study-of-islamic-societies-acsis-islam-in-the-post-obama-era/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180327T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180327T130000
DTSTAMP:20260704T122850
CREATED:20180301T205704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180301T205704Z
UID:10000976-1522152000-1522155600@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Islamic Challenges to the Universality of International Law
DESCRIPTION:The universality and coherence of modern international is increasingly challenged by technical fragmentation and identity-driven claims to particularity. This talk critically examines both the historical contribution of Islamic law to the regulation of international relations and whether relations with and between Islamic nations are in fact different. \nHow to meet the justified demand for greater pedagogical recognition of diversity\, with an intellectually honest critical engagement with non-Western cultural and legal traditions has become one of the defining challenges of teaching international law in the global classroom. It appears evident that accepting facile claims derived from a selective and highly idealised reading of dogmatic texts cannot do justice to our understanding of the actual operation of pre-modern\, non-Western international legal relations. More importantly\, such a selective\, idealised\, often hortatory reading of the dogmatic and historical record does not prepare us to evaluate the possibility\, indeed desirability of alternative systems of international law\, as claimed for instance by an alleged ‘Islamic law of nations’\, siyar. \nDr. Ebrahim Afsah is an associate professor of public international law at the University of Vienna and a professor of Islamic law and ethics at the University of Vienna. He has been trained at SOAS London\, Trinity College Dublin\, the Harvard Kennedy School and the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg. Prior to rejoining academia\, he worked for many years as a consultant on administrative reform and state-building\, an experience which informs his approach to the study of Islamic public law. \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-shariasource-lunch-talk-international-law-from-an-islamic-law-point-of-view/
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180331T140000
DTSTAMP:20260704T122850
CREATED:20180327T225225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T225225Z
UID:10000818-1522497600-1522504800@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Arab American Law Association Talk on Middle Eastern Legal Systems
DESCRIPTION:Lawyers John L. Habib and Abduallah Al-Haroun will lead a discussion centered around law and the Middle East. Both John Habib and Abduallah Al-Haroun have experience practicing law in some of the Middle East’s most competitive and emerging markets. In this talk\, they will share their experiences and provide insight into some of the biggest obstacles and challenges of practicing law in the region. \nHave a question for the speakers? There will be a Q&A after the talk! \nThe talk will be held on the 31st of March between 12-2 pm EST at Simmons College\, 300 Fenway\, Boston\, MA 02115. Here is a link to the event on Facebook\, let us know if you’re coming! \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/385928071874957/ \nJohn L. Habib \nMr. Habib obtained his JD from Emroy University in Atlanta Georgia in 1990. He is the founding owner and Managing Partner of HLS Attorneys\, a New York law firm which maintains representative offices in Washington\, D.C. and the United Arab Emirates. HLS Attorneys specializes in commercial law and real estate transactions\, litigation/arbitration and US/foreign law compliance matters. \nAbduallah Al-Haroun \nMr. Al-Haroun obtained his Bachelor of law from Queen Mary University in London\, UK in 2013 and is a member of the Kuwait bar association. Mr. Al-Haroun is an Associate at the International Counsel in Kuwait where he offers legal counsel and advice on matters relating to corporate commercial law\, environment\, mergers and acquisitions\, among many others\, to a number of major local and multinational corporations across a multitude of sectors and industries. \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/arab-american-law-association-talk-on-middle-eastern-systems/
LOCATION:Simmons College\, 300 Fenway\, Boston\, MA\, 02115\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180402
DTSTAMP:20260704T122850
CREATED:20180227T133336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T133336Z
UID:10000963-1522540800-1522627199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Mesa Book Awards: Including Two New Awards
DESCRIPTION:The MESA Board of Directors has approved the creation of two new book awards honoring the pioneering efforts of two women. The inaugural awards will be presented at the 52nd MESA Annual Meeting in San Antonio\, Texas. \nThe Nikki Keddie Book Award was established to recognize an outstanding contribution on religion\, revolution\, and history/society. The annual award was named for Nikki Keddie to recognize her long and distinguished career as a scholar and teacher. Read More \nThe Fatima Mernissi Book Award was established to recognize an outstanding contribution to studies of gender\, sexuality\, and women’s lived experience. The annual award was named for Fatima Mernissi to recognize her long and distinguished career as a scholar and as a public intellectual. Read More  \nMESA INVITES NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2018 MESA BOOK AWARDS COMPETITION. \nNominations for all three MESA Book Awards – the Albert Hourani Book Award\, the Nikki Keddie Book Award\, and the Fatima Mernissi Book Award – are made simultaneously. Nominations can be made by either the publisher or the author. Although there is no limit on the number of titles that authors or publishers may submit\, we ask that they exercise discretion in the selection of books nominated.  Below is a list of criteria that should be met: \n\nBooks must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between April 1\, 2017 and March 31\, 2018. Authors need not be members of MESA.\n\n  \n\nSubject matter must deal with the Middle East.  Areas primarily of interest include Iran\, Turkey\, Afghanistan\, Israel\, Pakistan\, and the countries of the Arab World from the seventh century to modern times.  Spain\, Southeastern Europe\, the Soviet Union and other regions also are included for the periods in which their territories were part of the Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization.\n\n  \n\nWorks not eligible include edited collections and compilations\, proceedings of symposia\, new editions of previously published books\, bibliographies\, dictionaries\, textbooks\, and surveys.\n\n  \n\nNominations must be made by April 1\, 2018\, with books delivered to the readers by April 10\, 2018\, for books to be eligible for the competition. (Emailed nominations are acceptable)\n\nThe author of the Albert Hourani Book Award will receive $1000 and a certificate of award. The authors of the Nikki Keddie and Fatima Mernissi Book Awards will receive $500 each. In the event of co-winners\, prize money will be divided evenly among the winners. Honorable mentions also receive a certificate of award. Winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at the 52ndMESA Annual Meeting in San Antonio\, Texas. As well\, the results will be posted on MESA’s website and in other publications as deemed appropriate by MESA. \n  \nFor more information about nominating a book\, see MESA Book Awards
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/mesa-book-awards-including-two-new-awards/
CATEGORIES:prizes and nominations
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180404
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180405
DTSTAMP:20260704T122850
CREATED:20180122T180208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T180208Z
UID:10000962-1522800000-1522886399@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights: 18th Specialization Course in International Criminal Law for Young Penalists on “International and Transnational Crimes"
DESCRIPTION:ISISC is glad to announce that the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights – the new public name adopted by the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC) – is organizing its 18th Specialization Course in International Criminal Law for Young Penalists on “International and Transnational Crimes”\, dedicated to the memory of prof. M. Cherif Bassiouni (1937-2017). The course will take place from May 27 to June 4\, 2018 in Siracusa (Italy). \nThe Siracusa Institute will select 60 participants who should have a university degree\, ideally in law or with some studies in law\, and be 35 years of age or under. Provision may be made for auditors who do not fulfil these conditions. Furthermore\, the Institute will offer 10 scholarships to applicants from Developing and Less Developed Countries. Applications should be submitted by April 4\, 2018. \nAll relevant information and the application form are available on at www.siracusainstitute.org. You are kindly requested to fill out the application form directly on the webpage. Once you have submitted your application online\, you will receive a confirmation. \nPlease do not hesitate to contact the Siracusa Institute for any questions or concerns you may have at icl-course@siracusainstitute.org.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/siracusa-international-institute-for-criminal-justice-and-human-rights-18th-specialization-course-in-international-criminal-law-for-young-penalists-on-international-and-transnational-crimes/
LOCATION:Siracusa\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Applications,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities
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